Halas Hall is haunted by past failures, but the Bears may have stumbled into a good hire. He’s creative and fiery and he runs the dang ball.

The Chicago Bears had so much optimism heading into the 2024 season. It ended the way most years do for the Bears over the last 35 years: with bitter disappointment and widespread embarrassment throughout the organization.

How did you feel when the Chicago Bears announced the hiring of Matt Eberflus? Or Matt Nagy? Or John Fox? Or Marc Trestman? You were like, whatever. As well you should’ve been. It could be argued that until today—the day that the Bears finalized a deal to bring in former Detroit Lions offensive coordinator Ben Johnson as their head coach—Mike Ditka was the only sideline hire in modern Bears history that elicited a palpable sense of elation,